Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE PHILOSOPHER, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And what are you that, wanting you Last Line: So wisely and so well? Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers | ||||||||
And what are you that, wanting you, I should be kept awake As many nights as there are days With weeping for your sake? And what are you that, missing you, As many days as crawl I should be listening to the wind And looking at the wall? I know a man that's a braver man And twenty men as kind, And what you are, that you should be The one man in my mind? Yet women's ways are witless ways, As any sage will tell, -- And what am I, that I should love So wisely and so well? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ROMAN SKETCHBOOK: READING/RUSSELL SAYS, 'THERE IS NO RHINOCEROS IN by ROBERT CREELEY THE CLOUDS OF MAGELLAN (APHORISMS OF MR. CANON ASPIRIN) by NORMAN DUBIE OLD ARISTIPPUS by ANSELM HOLLO PUT IN A QUAVER, HERE AND THERE by ANSELM HOLLO FIN-DE-SIECLE BLUES by CAROLYN KIZER I BROOD ABOUT SOME CONCEPTS, FOR EXAMPLE by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER AFTERNOON ON A HILL by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY |
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